Been doing a lovely tango with HMRC over the past few weeks and thought I'd create a chat for anyone else who fancies a grumble.
My circumstances:
- 2023/2024 was self-employed for half the year, ended my self-employment and became full-time employed from Feb 2024
- Filled in my self assessment in April with details of all my income, specifying that I was a Scottish tax resident, and that my self-employment had ceased
- Got a 'correction' back from HMRC requesting 2k LESS tax from me than what I'd calculated, as they'd decided randomly that I'm on a UK tax rate
- I called them up to correct them. 1 hour into the call HMRC just randomly cuts me off (having put me on hold for 45 mins first)
- They've placed an 'adjustment' on my account that now states that I should pay them 3k over what they're actually due (so 5k over what their initial sum was) - based on their adjustment, I'd have had to have earned an additional 16k in income than what I actually did. No details as to how they derived this bonkers figure
- They've also updated my tax code for my PAYE to reduce my personal allowance - again, randomly they've decided I'll be earning over 100k even though I've declared my self-employment as having ceased and my 2024/2025 income will be substantially less than that (especially since I'll be on mat leave for 6 months of it on maternity allowance as I don't qualify for mat pay)
- I've tried to call them every day since but keep getting cut off after 5 minutes saying there's no advisers available to take my call
- I've sent them messages since and updated my digital account so fingers crossed the amendments come through within their supposed 15 day response window
- argh!
Just why is nothing easy?? Really regret trying to do the right thing and correcting them about my residency now!